Fennica Gehrman

Kalevi Aho's (b. 1949) concerto no. 2 for cello and orchestra (2013) is in five movements performed without a break. It begins with a swinging Berceuse, followed by a very quick, virtuosic Presto in 5...

Harri Wessman (b. 1949) composed ten easy pieces for young cellists and pianists in 1991. The idiomatic approach to writing music makes the pieces easy to adopt. The cellist should be acquinted with t...

The composer tells (2001): "Pianist Martti Rautio called me at the beginning of the year 2001, and told to my surprise that he has found among the notes of his cellist father Erkki a sonata by me and...

Einar Englund's (1916-1999) Flute Concerto (1985) is beyond dispute one of his greatest works. Its finest attributes are its rich melodic invention, colourful instrumentation and immediate message. Ad...

Harri Wessman's Pan and the Nymph Pitys (1979) for flute and guitar bears the first symptoms of his later style, the texture being softly dissonant. In an old mythological dictionary the composer foun...

Koskelin's work for flute dating from 2003 was first performed by Mikael Helasvuo.

This is one of the best-known pieces of classical music in the world today and probably the piece most identified with Tchaikovsky. It has been used extensively in many different contexts and has beco...

This vigorous 'Russian Dance' appears in Act 2 of The Nutcracker ballet. Tchaikovsky utilized the Cossack Trepak dance of his homeland for this exciting movement, contrasting effectively with the more...

This charming work to a poem by Niilo Rauhala describes the holy place of peace, meditation and closeness, best experienced in the cathedral of nature on a summer evening.

In questa raccolta di canzoni d'amore "l'amore è un luogo" in onore di uno dei grandi poeti del genere, Matthew Whittall, voleva creare un senso di progressione da varie fasi di quel sentimento univer...

Lars Karlsson's Suite for Helena (Svit för Helena, 1994) for wind quintet is built on folk tunes from his native Åland Islands. In five movements, it takes a form from classical models (French suite,...

Lotta Wennäkoski's Mien (2014) for wind quintet is based on rippling, wavering, timbre changing effect of bisbigliando. The good-humoured piece has a swinging jingle, and with duration of approximatel...

In spring 2020, coronavirus began spreading throughout the world and in many places people were subjected to quarantine. It was then that Hiyoli Togawa, a violist, proposed that the BIS record label r...

Uuno Klami (1900-1961) was an acclaimed orchestral composer whose works in other genres also deserve to be known. This edition of chamber music composed by him between 1917 and 1952 was edited by pian...

Timo-Juhani Kyllönen's Trio no. 4 op. 38 (1994) for flute, clarinet & accordion was commissioned by the Association of Finnish Music Schools. Optional instrumentations: for two violins & accordion for...

Concerto per arpa e orchestra (2000) disponibile per la prima volta (2024)! Questo prodotto include anche la parte solistica curata da Kalen Smith. Il compositore racconta l'opera in tre movimenti: \\...

Kirmo Lintinen composed his clarinet concerto (2012-13) full of rhythmic drive attempting to write for the orchestra as if it were a large chamber ensemble in which listening closely to the other play...

Kimmo Hakola's Clarinet Concerto (2001) is finally available as a piano reduction and a solo part! Hakolan Klarinettikonserton pianoreduktio vihdoin saatavilla! -- The concerto created world-wide buzz...

Kalevi Aho's (b. 1949) Clarinet concerto (2005) has five movements played without pause. The beginning 'Tempestoso' is dramatic and powerful, but there is also a beautiful, slow middle section. The se...

Antti Auvinen's (b. 1974) Eliangelis (2005) for clarinet solo challenges the conventional way of writing for a monophonic solo instrument: at times the multi-layered multiphonic figures create an illu...

Ilkka Kuusisto's raucous and technically somewhat challenging suite for clarinet and piano Kissalan Aapelin soitteita (Aapeli of Kissala plays the Clarinet) is a musical portrait gallery of the Seven...

Energetic and bouncy, Olli Koskelin's Animal II for bass clarinet (2019/2020) is a nine-minute non-stoppable ride. This product is a B4 sized folder, sheet music (performance score) enclosed as loose...